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Let Me Tell You About A Man I Knew
Susan Fletcher
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Description for Let Me Tell You About A Man I Knew
Paperback. A tender and savage novel narrated by the wife of the doctor who tended van Gogh in his last, madly frenetic painting years. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Provence, May 1889. The hospital of Saint-Paul-de Mausole is home to the mentally ill. An old monastery, it sits at the foot of Les Alpilles mountains amongst wheat fields, herbs and olive groves. For years, the fragile have come here and lived quietly, found rest behind the shutters and high, sun-baked walls. Tales of the new arrival - his savagery, his paintings, his copper-red hair - are quick to find the warden's wife. From her small white cottage, Jeanne Trabuc watches him - how he sets his easel amongst the trees, the irises and the ... Read more
Provence, May 1889. The hospital of Saint-Paul-de Mausole is home to the mentally ill. An old monastery, it sits at the foot of Les Alpilles mountains amongst wheat fields, herbs and olive groves. For years, the fragile have come here and lived quietly, found rest behind the shutters and high, sun-baked walls. Tales of the new arrival - his savagery, his paintings, his copper-red hair - are quick to find the warden's wife. From her small white cottage, Jeanne Trabuc watches him - how he sets his easel amongst the trees, the irises and the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349007632
SKU
V9780349007632
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About Susan Fletcher
Susan Fletcher was born in 1979 in Birmingham. She is the author of the bestselling Eve Green (winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award), Oystercatchers and Witch Light - and most recently, the much-lauded Let Me Tell You About A Man I Knew.
Reviews for Let Me Tell You About A Man I Knew
Fletcher has always attracted praise for the lyricism of her prose . . . here she finds a new restraint that not only intensifies the beauty of her language but feels truer and more profound
Guardian
This is a novel about the power of seeing and being seen, the transcendence of everyday beauty, commonplace joys. Fletcher unpeels with ... Read more
Guardian
This is a novel about the power of seeing and being seen, the transcendence of everyday beauty, commonplace joys. Fletcher unpeels with ... Read more